Published September 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of the γγ*→π0 transition form factor

  • 1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
  • 2. Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 5. Institute of Physics, University of Bergen, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
  • 6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Description

We study the reaction e+e-→e+e-π0 in the single tag mode and measure the differential cross section dσ/dQ2 and the γγ*→π0 transition form factor in the momentum transfer range from 4 to 40 GeV2. At Q2>10 GeV2 the measured form factor exceeds the asymptotic limit predicted by perturbative QCD. The analysis is based on 442 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected at PEP-II with the BABAR detector at e+e- center-of-mass energies near 10.6 GeV.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 052002-052002.16
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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Notes
(c) 2009 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
BABAR Collaboration